BRISTOL.
��1 HIS bishopric was erected 4th June 1542, by letters patent of that date^.
The diocese was made out of those of Sahsbury, Wor- cester, and Wells ; from the first the county and archdeaconry of Dorset were taken ; from Worcester the several parishes in the county of Gloucester, locally situated in the city of Bristol ; and from Wells three churches and chapels also in the city of Bristol.
The cathedral had a dean, six prebendaries or major canons, six minor canons, &c.
The see of Bristol (with certain exceptions) was united with that of Gloucester in October 1836 by act of parliament pursuant to the recommendation of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
��BISHOPS.
54a Paul Bushe, S.T.B., last rector of the college of Bon- l.vill. hommes at Edington in Wiltshire, was nominated as the first bishop of this see in the charter above men- tioned ; and the temporalities were given to him 16th June 1542, on which day the archbishop of Canter- bury was desired to consecrate him '^ ; and that cere- mony was accordingly performed 25th June, in the parish church of Hampton-^. He resigned his bishop- ric to queen Mary in 1554^. He died nth Oct.
��1 Pat. 34 Hen. VIII. p. 10. m. 3 Rgg. Cranm. fol. 285. 26. 2 ibjd_ p_2. m. 14. -1 Pat. I Mary, p. 7. m. 34.
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